Re: [HACKERS] gitlab post-mortem: pg_basebackup waiting for checkpoint - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [HACKERS] gitlab post-mortem: pg_basebackup waiting for checkpoint
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYeTytkZdSQqX8Ck+ZHSQkW5dyY8-0=rCdofxUbjdya_A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] gitlab post-mortem: pg_basebackup waiting forcheckpoint  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] gitlab post-mortem: pg_basebackup waiting forcheckpoint
Re: [HACKERS] gitlab post-mortem: pg_basebackup waiting forcheckpoint
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I'd rather have a --quiet mode instead.  If you're running it by hand,
> you're likely to omit the switch, whereas when writing the cron job
> you're going to notice lack of switch even before you let the job run
> once.

Well, that might've been a better way to design it, but changing it
now would break backward compatibility and I'm not really sure that's
a good idea.  Even if it is, it's a separate concern from whether or
not in the less-quiet mode we should point out that we're waiting for
a checkpoint on the server side.

-- 
Robert Haas
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